Devon Remmington, Director at Brilliant Cloud. For South African retailers, Black Friday and the December holiday season offer a chance to cash in on a countrywide shopping spree that is expected to generate over R150 billion in sales over Black Friday weekend alone this year. However, without effective ERP to streamline fulfilment, a seasonal bonanza…
Jill Blaauw, Mami Mthimkhulu and Dakalo Ndangani from the Hardware Distribution sales team. Hardware Distribution, an official distributor of ProLabs solutions across Africa, successfully showcased the latest in high-performance data centre and AI interconnect technology at the Africa Tech Festival, held in Cape Town from 11-13 November. The company highlighted ProLabs’ advanced 100G optics and…
The rise of genAI tools has introduced new risks. AI adoption is exploding across Africa, but without proper readiness assessments and controlled adoption, it can present new risks to organisations. This is according to Kejendree Pillay, Microsoft Portfolio Manager at First Distribution, one of the leading Microsoft CSP distribution companies across Africa. Speaking during a…
When most people think of Amazon Web Services, they automatically assume they should go directly to AWS. However, for the diverse ecosystem of AWS partners – including managed service providers and independent software vendors – the real secret to achieving significant growth often lies in leveraging the distributor model. Consider this analogy: if AWS is…
Sandile Dube, MD South Africa at Equinix. Technology distributor Axiz has announced a distribution partnership with global digital infrastructure company Equinix to make Equinix’s data centre and interconnection solutions available in SA and Africa. The partnership means businesses will gain access to colocation services at the Johannesburg IBX data centre, the Equinix Fabric software-defined interconnection…
Agnes Mlambo Eskom has purchased 20 electric vehicles, ranging from light delivery vehicles to light trucks, as it pursues a long-term plan to electrify its entire fleet. It said on Wednesday that the 20 vehicles will be deployed mainly in its distribution and generation divisions. The utility plans to buy another 100 EVs in the…
Celebrating 20 years in business. Even Flow Distribution, which positions itself as a trusted leader in value-added distribution for security, networking, unified communication and video collaboration solutions, proudly celebrates its 20th anniversary. This milestone marks two decades of consistent innovation, strategic growth and unwavering dedication to its reseller and systems integrator partner network across southern…
Two American aid workers with the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were injured in southern Gaza in an attack at a food distribution site on Saturday. The organization claimed the attack was carried out by Hamas but did not provide further evidence. The GHF said assailants threw grenades at a distribution site in Khan…
If you work in ICT distribution, you’ve felt the shift. E-commerce has moved from a bolt-on to a business essential. What started as a convenience has become the way many customers expect to do business. Some see this as disruptive. I don’t. I see it as an enabler. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s a…
Organisations are flocking to the cloud for its agility, scalability and innovation potential. But while the cloud promises big things, it also presents a set of financial challenges. Many businesses find their cloud bills spiralling out of control, eroding the very benefits they sought in the first place. In this episode of TechCentral’s TCS+, Preegan…
